Bibliograph

A beggar in Jerusalem, a novel, by Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author

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A beggar in Jerusalem, a novel, by Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

A beggar in Jerusalem

Oclc number

58221

Responsibility statement

by Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author

Sub title

a novel

Summary

This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem

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